Tyrece
Masculine
Tyrece writes with a c what the commoner spelling writes with an s, and English lets it: before e, the letter c makes exactly that sound, as it does in nice and peace. So the change is invisible in speech and entirely legitimate on paper. The name it varies came into American use in the late 1990s with a singer who used it alone, without a surname.
How old is the name Tyrece?
Tyrece first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Tyrece alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 700 people named Tyrece are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tyrece most popular?
Tyrece peaked in 1999, reaching #1545 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,463 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Tyrece
The Ty- opening became productive in American naming in the second half of the twentieth century, borrowing from Tyrone and Tyler, and it produced a large set of names in the same decades. What lifted this one out of the set was visibility: a singer and actor who went by the name alone reached a very large audience toward the end of the 1990s, and the record shows exactly what that does — a rise concentrated in the years around it. The c-spelling belongs to the ordinary business of a name being written down by many people at once.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No derivation is documented. The name appears to have been assembled from the Ty- opening, which American naming has used freely for decades, and an ending shared with Reese and Reece — the latter of which is itself Welsh and means ardor or enthusiasm. That connection is a resemblance rather than a line of descent, and it should not be presented as the meaning.
Pronouncing Tyrece
ty-REECE
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The c and the s spellings are identical in sound; nothing about the name changes when the letter does.
Nicknames for Tyrece
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 199972 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1545reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%5 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tyreces among us
people named Tyrece are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Tyrece
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tyrece
- #12008
- Tyrece on the 2025 chart
- #858
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tyrece went to 5 boys in 2025, but Tyrese, Tyreese and Tyreece are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 70, which makes it the 858th most-given boys’ name of the year — 11,150 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 24,401 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 341,615 for Tyrece itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Amelio test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tyrece's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amelio climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amelio's path sketches the road Tyrece is walking now.
Tyrece sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tyrece beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tyrece in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves work as short forms and belong to completely different registers.
- The c is a legitimate English spelling of the sound, not an invention.
- The stress is fixed by the shape, so the name is rarely said wrong.
- Tyrese is much the commoner spelling and will be substituted on nearly everything.
- Because the difference is silent, the spelling has to be dictated every time.
- The name is tied closely to one performer and one stretch of years, which dates it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tyreces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Tyrece are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tyrece?
- Tyrece is one of 4 recorded spellings. Tyrese is the more common one — 48 births in 2025 against 5 for Tyrece.
- How popular is the name Tyrece in 2025?
- Tyrece ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tyrece?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Tyrece — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tyrece with classmates?
- Tyrece will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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